Livy; book IX, chapters 1-19 - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...quin... addncis,' why do you not draw the thong tight?' So quin facts? in xi. 2, 'why do you not make?' equivalent to an imperative. (quin = qui ne, why or how not; both rel. and interrog.) § 9. hisce. Nominative plural: fan old form found in laws and formulae). noxam. Cognate ace, 'have been guilty of guilt,' i. e. 'have done a wrongful act.' ob eam rem quo, 'for the purpose that thereby.' (quo with final subj. generally has a comparative adj. or adv. in the clause.) Verg. Aen. iv. 106 quo regnum averteret, 'to remove the seat of empire.' Tac. Agric. 18. 3 quo ceteris par animus esset, 'that the others might have equal spirit.' § 10. genu, abl., 'with his own knee'; femur, ace. quanta maxime. Much the same as quam maxima. se... civem. Postumius had now become a Samnite; so a sacred fetial of Rome had been struck by a Samnite; result, right would be on Roman siile in the war. Similarly, Regulus declared himself a slave of Carthage, and no longer a Roman. CHAPTER XI § 2. quin. See x. 7. § 3-appello. See ix. 16. § 4. nemo... deceperit, lit. 'let no one have deceived any one,' i.e.'let neither side be able to complain of deceit.' omnia... sint, 'let all be as though it had not been.' quidquid... ventum, object of habeant. pridie... quam, 'on the day before that.' (The same construction as for prius... quam.) § 7. aliquant fraudi, &c., 'put a cloak of right upon your wrong-doing'; (a legal sense offraus). § 8. dig-num erat, 'would have been worthy.' (Cf. difficile fuit, ix. i2.) §9. ut... habeas, ego... habeam, 'that you should have, &c., and I not have,' &c. (ul-cl&use, as with words of command, depends on iuris.) hoc... inris gentians dicitis? 'is this a specimen of the law you lay down for the nations?'...

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